Packaging, deploying and updating applications can be hugely time consuming, especially when trying to keep on top of the latest zero-day exploit in your apps (I’m looking at you Chrome!) Fortunately there are now a handful of package managers available to take away this pain, especially useful when you have multiple customers with largely the … Read more
Whilst I’m a massive fan of PMPC, Scappman and Winget, there are times where I have to go old fashioned and package applications myself I’ve found the best way of detecting the uninstall string to use is to install the application (ideally in a sandbox) and then go digging through the registry which works well, … Read more
Update June 2023: This can now also be completed using Settings Catalog: Teams Chat is an annoying addition to Windows 11 and whilst you can remove the package itself, it doesn’t actually fully remove so you then need to push out extra policies. Whilst updating my de-bloat script I wanted to include the ability to … Read more
If you have a personal machine (or have admin on your corporate one), or find yourself being the IT support of the family/friends, application management can be troublesome. With Winget improving constantly, we can now use this to install, uninstall and update applications on personal computers. I have released version 1.0 of the Application Management … Read more
With the demise of Internet Explorer (RIP), the Enterprise Mode Site list is now an essential part of any estate where you have vendor websites which are only compatible with Internet Explorer. If you have such websites, you have my sympathies, but you do have options available to you. In this post I’m going to … Read more
With attacks on the rise and people becoming tired of authenticator alerts (which leads to them just accepting anything), now is the time to start looking at alternatives, uncluding Fido2 I was lucky enough to be sent a Fido 2 K33 device from Feitian technologies to give a thorough testing. Whilst I’ve been sent the … Read more
I often find myself looking in Intune to find a PC name of a machine assigned to a user (it saves having to deploy bginfo or similar), but as with many of my scripts, I like to find a quicker and easier way of doing it. This one is available both on github and Powershell … Read more
Windows 11 is here and it’s time to start preparing for deployments and management. I have now updated my build environment to include some Windows 11 specific tweaks which I will outline below. To use my base environment you can use the script from powershell gallery or grab directly from github here The first change … Read more
A fun post today, with Windows 11 looming, I built a machine from DOS 6.0 all the way to Win10 using only the upgrade path, no formatting of the drive. It’s a real-time video so timings below if you want to flick through, or watch from the start if you suffer from insomnia MS-DOS – … Read more
